A biotech company says CRISPR could revive extinct animals like the dodo and mammoth - but many scientists remain skeptical.

For the first time, Colossal BioSciences unveiled its Dallas labs where it is spending millions of dollars researching how to ...

Scientists estimate that roughly one quarter of all plant and animal species on Earth are now at risk of extinction. Habitat ...

Presumed extinct for more than 50 years, the wonderful takahē is still very much alive. As this Instagram post shows, it is a ...

In April of 2025, headlines across the world announced that the dire wolf had been brought back from extinction. This 130-150 lbs wolf species, about 25% heavier than modern-day gray wolves, had not ...

For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...

Just because a species is presumed extinct doesn’t mean it’s gone forever. Here are four glowing examples of this unique, and felicitous, phenomenon. Not all species that have been classified as ...

So many humans live on Earth, it’s hard to imagine there are animals we haven’t seen for years, decades, or even millions of years, but it keeps happening! Animals believed extinct that were found ...

The pygmy possum has a stripe down its back and an unusually long fourth finger, twice as long as the rest of its digits, that it uses to extract insect larvae that bores down into wood. It was last ...

In paleontology, lineages that drop out of the fossil record and then re-emerge after long periods are termed ‘Lazarus taxa.’ ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the International Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services ...